Media
Watase's first shonen series, Arata Kangatari, became an anime on April 8th, 2013 as part of the Weekly Shonen Sunday "Big Anime Project 2013" which was chosen to be animated along with two other manga series serialized in the same magazine. The series was only scheduled to last 12 episodes, and is produced by both IM Animation, and Satelight companies, and broadcasted on TV Tokyo. The Opening theme is by Sphere with the title "Genesis Aria" with the ending theme by OLDCODEX called "The Misfit Go". Below you can find more detailed information regarding the cast, episode list, DVD releases, and Cd (audio) releases!
Show your support for the series by visiting the official website at Arata-anime.com and of course by buying the DVD's!
Show your support for the series by visiting the official website at Arata-anime.com and of course by buying the DVD's!
Episode List
Below you will find the episode list (with english translation in parenthesis), along with their original air dates
1. Arata no Inochi - (the life of arata) - air date 4/8/2013
2. Hayagami - (hayagami) - air date 4/15/2013 3. Shinpan - (the reckoning) - air date 4/22/2013 4. Kakusei - (awakening) - air date 4/29/2013 5. Zokusho - (zokusho) - air date 5/6/2013 6. Okoro - (okoro) - air date 5/13/2013 |
7. Homura - (homura) - air date 5/27/2013
8. Orochi - (orochi) - air date 6/3/2013 9. Onika - (demonization) - air date 6/10/2013 10. Shoukei - (admiration) - air date 6/17/2013 11. Mitama - (life force) - air date 6/24/2013 12. Sousei No Hikari - (the life of creation) - air date 7/1/2013 |
DVD Releases
After the series was aired on Japanese television, the twelve episodes was then released on both standard DVD and Blu-ray. In addition to having the episodes available for home enjoyment, these releases also included cool bonuses. There is awesome additional animated content, as well as booklets with sketches from Watase, and postcards! There is a total of 6 DVDs.
Cast
Check out the who's who of the Arata anime, and see who is responsible for bring Arata to life!
- Arata - Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
- Arata Hinohara - Nobuhiko Okamoto - Kotoha - Ayahi Takagaki - Kannagi - Yuuki Ono - Harunawa - Akira Ishida - Hiruko - Daisuke Namikawa - Kugura - Go Inoue |
- Hime-ou - Hibiku Yamamura
- Kanate - Junko Minagawa - Yataka - Mamoru Miyano - Kadowaki - Ryohei Kimura - Yorunami - Souichiro Hoshi - Akachi - Tatsuhisa Suzuki - Director's - Kenji Yasuda & Woo Hyun Park |